Bealtine Ritual: Light your Inner Fire

 So, why a ritual?We are ancient and new all at once. We’ve evolved from generations and generations, who each laid the template for our being in the world. The seas, the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the bees, the smallest of creatures to the largest, are all part of our ecological heritage which has enabled our being in the world. Our human ancestors then mapped the fields which feed us, paved the roads and gave us their wisdom and medicine. Rituals connect us to a time span longer than our life span- serving to remind us that we are stewards to this earth and have been offered the gift of living- right here, right now, in this privileged time of ours. The act of honouring ancient rituals brings us into conversation with our deeper, wiser selves- to our inner knowing and simultaneously to our place in the wider community of life, ecology and customs which surrounds us.In the Celtic Calendar, Bealtaine was a time of the year- one of the eight significant points in the Celtic Wheel- when the ritual of fire ceremony created a portal of celebration to mark the summer season- a time of fertility, light, growth and blooming. On the hill of Uisnech, the ‘naval of Ireland’, a place which in myth and ancient lore marks as the centre of our celtic imaginal capacities, and a meeting place of the provinces of Ireland, the Bealtaine fire is still lit, high on the hill. As the central fire rises, the flames communicate their celebratory announcement of summer to the communities across the land. Fires begin to simultaneously rise across the hills of Meath, and from there the celebrations spread, from province to province, from heart to heart.The Uisnech fire is a strong symbolic nod to the power of lighting our own inner fire. When we are ablaze with ideas and inspiration, fuelled with long summer nights and at least the promise of sunny days- our light can catch, like wildfire, spreading out into our families, our colleagues, our communities.So, this Bealtaine (1 May), take pause to fuel your own inner fire. I have designed a Bealtine Ritual to support you to reflect, to tune into what wants to blossom in your own life, and to symbolically light your own Bealtaine fire.Sign up to my mailing list to access your free Bealtaine Ritual. You'll be sent a link to access the ritual as well as a host of useful resources and planners.

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 Then, I invite you to join the Living Seasonally Summer Edition, which will provide you with practical, actionable tools you can apply right across the spectrum of your life to bring your ideas to life. For remember, when we all learn to share our light- as the writer Marianne Williamson has celebrated- we give others permission to shine too.This is the season to bring your ideas to life. Join me.Registration for the Living Seasonally Summer Edition is now OPEN. We start on May 10th.>>Find out more here and register today to avail of the early bird offer.<<Register before 11pm on May 5th for the early bird offer.(use the coupon: EarlyBirdSummer2018) Onwards, with light in our hearts and fire in our feet, one elegant step after the next.Clare x